Zenith People are working with our client who are a Manufacturer looking to recruit a time-served Mechanical Biased Maintenance Technician with a strong background in Hydraulics on a permanent basis.
The Main Purpose of the role
Working as part of the site Maintenance team, you will be responsible for carrying out reactive and preventative maintenance within a busy, high-volume Manufacturing plant.
Responsibilities
- Carry out reactive, planned, preventive & predictive maintenance tasks on plant equipment.
- To maintain and improve the site PPM (Planned Preventive Maintenance) schedule.
- To maintain and increase plant availability.
- To record and communicate maintenance information via written, electronic & verbal means.
- To assist installation and commissioning of new equipment.
- Suggests and takes ownership of continuous improvement activities to achieve results.
- Support customers (internal & external), including the identification and correction of machinery faults such as, electrical equipment, mechanical faults, PLC's, hydraulics and pneumatics.
The Person we are looking for/Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum of 2 years post qualified experience gained within a high-volume manufacturing environment
- Experience of fault finding and RCA (Root Cause Analysis)
- Experience of working with Power Press equipment
- Fault finding and diagnostics on controls equipment, Drives, inverters & PLC's: Siemens Step 7 / TIA portal, etc.
- Fault finding and diagnostics on relay systems
- Experience of engineering hand tools; Test Equipment; Lifting and slinging equipment; Access equipment; General office equipment; Workshop machinery; Vibratory tools: i.e. Hand-held grinders and hammer action drilling machines
- Experience of welding (MMA or MIG)
- Working knowledge of feedback systems e.g. Encoder
- Working knowledge of robotic systems / Automation
- Working knowledge of electrical heating systems
- Previous experience of TPM activities
- Working knowledge of chillers, compressors and plant utilities
- Experience of machine installation and modification
- Experience of safety interlocking systems
- Ability to follow and fault find using electrical / hydraulic / pneumatic and engineering drawings
- Computer literate
- Time served maintenance technician
- Qualified to HNC level in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or equivalent. Degree an advantage
- IEE Regs (17th/18th Edition) desirable
- NEBOSH or IOSH - desirable
If you are a time-served Mechanical Biased Maintenance Technician with a background in carrying out maintenance on hydraulic machinery please click apply now.